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Chapter 11 The Doomsday of the Workers

"As we all know, the value of human beings to society has nothing to do with the value of use he creates, but only with the scarcity of his skills and resources.

Everyone needs to eat, but the status of farmers is still humble. This is because there are too many farmers and they cannot kill all individuals overlapping with their skill trees, thereby creating their own scarcity.

Therefore, when we discuss which is more important and more popular in the future society, we should not only look at the human society itself, but also look at the 'what type of people are more likely to be eliminated and replaced by machines'.

At present, with the birth of deep learning, those who "can learn 90 points in one course in 50 hours and learn 90 points in both courses in 100 hours, but cannot learn 98 points in any course in 300 hours, will be much more popular in the future than those who "can learn 75 points in 50 hours, but can only learn 98 points in 300 hours."

Because if humans rely on hard work and grinding, how can they work harder than machines? In the past, machines could only "execute" and not "learning", so people in humans who "only work harder" have the value of living. Once machines also learn to "learn", people in humans who "only know how to work hard" will be defeated by machines.

This is why when innovative technology companies recruit R&D talents, they pay more and more attention to learning ability, learning speed rather than knowledge stock. Even if a specialist can use three years to sharpen a skill to 98 points, what if it is too fast to upgrade a skill, and before it reaches 90 points, what has been learned before has been outdated and eliminated.

It only takes a month for a technology innovation company to get a new skill, run on the passing score line, and then iterate quickly. As for the professional craftsman spirit, you can continue to make sushi or fried tempura.

So, what are the disadvantages of deep learning artificial intelligence compared to humans? It is that each artificial intelligence can only be set to strive for. For example, Google is currently building a robot Go project called "AlphaGo", which can only be set to the goal of "win Go", and then everything evolves to achieve this goal. Every time you play a game, you will learn statistics when the winning rate is high, and you will avoid it when the winning rate is low. You can't do it if you want him to play Go beautifully and beautifully and ornamentally at the same time.

Compared with machines, the last bottom line is that humans have multiple values ​​and interests. Humans are just doing things that seem aimless or are inefficient in achieving the current main goal. At this time, we can see the collision of ideas and value innovation brought about by cross-circle trade-offs between multiple goals. This is why many opportunities in the entrepreneurial industry are now appearing in cross-circle nodes..."

As a positive side, Feng Jianxiong's summary statement was published after Su Qin.

So, after Feng Jianxiong finished speaking in a few minutes, except for the audience asking questions, the other party had no chance to refute.

Before summarizing the comments, Feng Jianxiong relied on his imagination and foresight to break the scene a little bit, making Su Qin feel deeply powerless.

But at that time, Su Qin had not completely given up treatment.

When he finished his concluding remarks, he felt that he had a strong aura and was well-founded.

However, Feng Jianxiong was determined. Su Qin knew that all the fantasies about victory just now did not exist.

Tian Haimo, the host on the rostrum, was also in a thrilling mood: "It is unheard of to argue from the perspective of specialist or generalist who is more likely to be eliminated by machines. But looking at his arguments, they all seem to be true."

Her understanding is actually more profound than Su Qin.

Because Su Qin was still in the competition just now, it was impossible to verify whether the arguments the other party said were true on the spot, and it was impossible to cross them like in court debates.

However, Tian Haimo and other judges of the jury took advantage of the quarrels and immediately took Feng Jianxiong's English version of "Wire" and other paper evidence.

So, they knew that Feng Jianxiong's evidence was true.

"Feng Jianxiong's sensitivity to cutting-edge technology is simply terrible. Unexpectedly, in 2005, the front and back sides were evenly matched, and Bai Zhizhong of Wanwan still relied on his victory. Just a year later, because of the latest technological trend changes in Silicon Valley, it became a funny topic worth debating."

Several judges felt sad in their hearts.

The proposition of the debate topic is too backward!

Today's scene is like in 1990, when Jinling University and Wanwan University debated the debate on "will the Soviet system collapse?", it might have been difficult to resolve at that time, but once the ironclad evidence of the demise of the Soviet Union was released a year later, the debater who stood up for the Soviet Union was cheated.

"Study hard" is still an excellent character.

But the "only hard work" people and the "only hard work" specialists are destined to lose to their other similar people in the second they can learn from machines.

The future is for those who can do, find goals, set goals, question and ask questions. Instead of those who are only assigned homework and can solve these homework by working hard alone.

The way of heaven and truth stood on Feng Jianxiong's side, which really made him win without force.

...

"How did Feng Jianxiong's brain grow? This is not only a matter of eloquence and debate, but his horizons are also too broad."

"That's right, I'm different from you. I'm a semi-professional debate enthusiast. I went to Tudou to see this topic last year's video of Taibazi and Hong Kong Can's debate last year! But even in last year's international competition, everyone just denied the definition and played word games, and they didn't have the brains of Feng Jianxiong's game today."

The melon-eating crowds on the field were crazy about Feng Jianxiong's awesomeness, as if they were afraid that most of the novices would not understand the awesomeness of their subtle meaning.

When the newbie's emotions were almost blown, it was time for everyone to stand up and shout 666; those senior fans with half a bottle of water would show off their knowledge and help Feng Jianxiong shout "Basic operation, sit down for me if you shout 666~"

The scene was once chaotic until the jury completed the intense discussion.

Tian Haimo was in a complicated mood and took an envelope to the stage - it was an envelope, not a piece of paper she usually looked very serious.

Open, smooth, take a deep breath, and announce.

"Now I announce that the winner of today's competition is: Law School team! Let's congratulate them together... Then, please invite President Zhou to present the award to the representatives of the Law School team!"

"The best debater in this game is: the fourth debater of the Pro-Fang Fang, Feng Jianxiong!"

"The best debater of this year's 'Hope Cup' is: Law School team, Feng Jianxiong!"

Tian Haimo announced three messages in an orderly manner, and then watched many school leaders present awards to Feng Jianxiong and Yu Meiqin and others.

Although Tian Haimo's heart was a little empty, she was not disappointed. She just felt that an era seemed to be over and a new era had begun.

This is a very subtle feeling.

Vice Principal Zhou coughed lightly and hung the medal of the best debater of this year's Cup on Feng Jianxiong's neck - it was a piece of copper gilded, like a large commemorative coin. Then he took the certificate from the emcee girl next to him and handed it to Feng Jianxiong with both hands.

Feng Jianxiong took it respectfully.

Principal Zhou is a bald man in his early 50s. He is used to being accustomed to the official voice, so even if he speaks with sincerity at this moment, he still can't help but be condescending:

"You performed very well. This class of freshmen has brought a lot of new strength to the school's debate circle. I hope you will be able to compete with the traditional two strong men in the East China competition in the year after. Jinling and Fudan in the domestic competition."

After Principal Zhou finished speaking, several staff members next to him, including the teacher who was the coach of the school debate team, also gathered together to appreciate it, and talked and laughed to persuade Feng Jianxiong to take this job.

After all, he and Yu Meiqin are just freshmen. Although they are enterprising, they will have to be tempered for another two years before they can truly enter the full state, right?

This is a normal idea for most people.

Of course, Feng Jianxiong wanted to give face to this kind of expectation: "Thank you for Principal Zhou's expectations, but two years have passed, I think I will kill Jinling Fudan this year and go to Xingdao next year."

"This year...ahhehe, good, ambitious!" Principal Zhou's face froze, and did not blow Feng Jianxiong's confidence. "It's good to have ambition, so you should start to understand the strength of your opponent now."

The school leader laughed a few times and left first. Tian Haimo also said a few words to the end and announced the end of the cup.

Feng Jianxiong's old friend, senior Ding Lihui, held the microphone and was not seen. She rushed over from the auditorium a few steps and asked him to say a few words.

"I'll say whatever I think. I'll go back and record my questions. Just tell me the awards and comments." Ding Lihui was very straightforward. Anyway, the school station is just a radio, not a TV, so the editing of pure audio should not be too easy.

Feng Jianxiong has been a "colleague" with her for more than half a year. Everyone knows the work details, so it would be boring to act with her.

Feng Jianxiong cleared his throat and changed into a very compassionate tone: "Actually, I think today's victory is a bit unfair - 'Is the future society more open to generalists or specialists more open to specialists'? This topic has many commonalities with 'Is technological progress more comprehensive or narrower development'. Especially when we interpret society from the perspective of science and technology, these two issues almost coincide.

So, when I easily beat the business school led by Senior Sister Tian in the quarterfinals, it already shows that I have great achievements in this regard. Senior Su should just be dissatisfied and thinks that his level is higher than Senior Sister Tian, ​​and his teammates are also stronger than those of Business School, so he still wants to give it a try. But the result is indeed very sad.

In fact, the deeper I reflect on this set of debate topics, the more I can feel a social trend: because machines in the future can also learn, and their learning speed will definitely be faster than humans and will sleeplessly than humans, so there is no future in comparing specialization with machines.

The only advantage of human beings is that at least at present, the 'deep learning artificial intelligence' will not set goals, judgment systems and data identification for themselves. Therefore, artificial intelligence can only be a specialist, while human beings can suddenly imagine doing some cross-circle associative things and be a generalist.

The education we received when we were young was the best in our hardships. However, the opportunity to make a breakthrough by enduring hardships and perseverance is becoming increasingly slim.

Of course, I am not saying that one should not endure hardship and perseverance, but that one cannot simply endure hardship and have no hobbies and ideals. Because human nature is originally to become a generalist, a primitive person must be able to hunt and collect. Although the social division of labor itself is efficient, it violates the human genes. Therefore, repeating research on something will make people suffer and need to be solved with perseverance.

As long as one thing is painful, there is a capital market here. When capital smells this demand, it will find a way to invent a machine to help humans complete this anti-human work. It was just that we didn’t think that repeated research-based mental labor could be conquered by machines, but the progress now shows that we are wrong.

So, if a person has no ideals, hobbies and geniuses, and he is simply able to endure hardships than others, then the future of his elimination by machines will not be too far away - pure hard-working people, their era of success will end within 20 years. Although it is cruel, this is the fact. This is not what I said, I am just standing on the side of the way of heaven."
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